Naturalism and the Sublime in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” — J.W. Wartick -“Always Have a Reason” @jwwartick

To be sublime is to be “of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe” according to Oxford Dictionaries. As Alan Gregory has argued in Science Fiction Theology, scientific (or sometimes nearly magical) sublime frequently replaces transcendent reality in science fiction. I believe this can just as easily be noted within science […]